Also this issue: The Core The Apples in Stereo find their seeds. -A.D. Amorosi Review: Relache Ensemble -Peter Burwasser Suite Spot -Peter Burwasser on Classical Hear Here -Patrick Rapa Reviews -A.D. Amorosi, Andrew Milner and John Vettese Greg Tardy -Kyle Parker Napalm Death -Paul Burress Devendra Banhart -Sam Adams

February 6-12, 2003

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The Cleveland Orchestra

Tomorrow night, the only orchestra in the U.S. that might give our Philadelphia Orchestra a run for its money comes to town with its new conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. (Philadelphia audiences will remember the Austrian Welser-Möst from his guest appearances with our orchestra in recent years.) The program holds the Mahler seventh symphony and the Philadelphia premiere of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s Orion, scored for strings, expanded brass and woodwinds, piano, organ and an extensive percussion section. The Mahler piece is the least known of his symphonies, a sprawling work in five movements. The inner three comprise some of the composer’s most advanced music. Influenced by the German poets Novalis and Eichendorff, this bizarre scherzo anticipates the “night music” of Bartók. The symphony requires a virtuoso orchestra; Welser-Möst most certainly has one.

Fri., Feb. 7, 8 p.m., $29-$112, The Kimmel Center, 260 S. Broad St., 215-893-1999.

—Lou Camp